My understanding is airplane mode turns off ALL radios so you can't get a call either. You might as well just turn it off.

I had better battery life with Battery Saver mode than with Juice.

You can delete battery stats with recovery (under advanced).

Do you have a recovery backup you can load if you screwed up something freezing all those worthless apps? Sometimes uninstalling or freezing things can make battery life worse. That's why I recommend just backing up stock and installing a rom, if you want to get rid of bloat.

FWIW, I didn't see anything in your battery use that said what the problem was but 3% boot animation doesn't sound right. Did you reboot your phone 50 times?

 

A new battery takes 2 to 3 full charge/discharge cycles to get optimal capacity.

I use mine all day long with the extended battery. on an average day I get about 200 emails pushed, 5 to 10 text messages, about 30 minutes total of calls, reading news about an hour. at the end of the day I usually have 50 to 60% left.

In airplane mode (tested while on vacation in a foreign country that does not have cdma coverage) I was able to get over 2 weeks of use on one charge. which included some short email via wifi couple times a day.

Overall the X has excellent battery life!

 

What extended battery brand is it? How many MaH?

 

+1... takes days for a phone to understand the capabilities of any new battery. You should charge it up and run it nearly dead the first time, and it will do nothing but improve after that.

I use QuickClock (there is a free version) and Overclock to overclock and undervolt my X. Can't say it makes a huge difference in battery life, but I like to tweak and tune. My day job is IT, if that says anything. I OC to 1,250 with a little higher voltage than QC recommends for stability. I've overclocked computers for years until I was into laptops, which are harder to tune.

When I referenced freezing apps, I was speaking in generalities, not skype, BB, Madden, in particular, but stick by my rom-is-easier-than-freezin'-stuff comment. Apex is known for good battery life.

Maximum Battery Saver is a setting under your phone' Battery Manager settings.

If you think you have something using your battery in an inappropriate way, I like Watchdog to monitor that. You only need to run it for a few days IMO. Once I had an app that used a lot of cpu, but after I rebooted, all was good.

 

Going against what most people say, it's actually bad for the battery to drain it all the way down. Lithium ion batteries don't need to be "trained." It's better for the battery to receive many partial charges, rather then full discharges. If you do fully drain the battery, I would only do so after ~30 charges. I have the extended battery, but run custom ROMs, maybe try a ROM out, they seem to have much better battery life across the board.

 

Correct.

When you swap out a battery in a new phone, you're not training the battery. You're letting the phone learn the capabilities of the phone. The only way to do that is to discharge it.

From that link:

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Correct. The purpose of draining the battery isn't to train the battery, but rather to allow the phone the opportunity to properly read the capacity of the battery.

 

It is not bad for a lithium battery to be drained.

It is bad for a lithium battery to be discharged past a safe voltage, but every lithium powered consumer device has a shutdown mechanism in place to prevent a deep discharge of the lithium battery.

Now, it's not great practice to repeatedly fully discharge and recharge a lithium battery as the standard mechanism of use, but it's not bad for the battery to be drained all the way.

 

Bad info

Good info.

Yes, it is not good for Litium Ions to be completely drained, that why as Binary Visions correctly stated that they have protection circuitry on them to ensure that can't happen.

The thing that degrades the batteries lifetime, however, is charging cycles. That is why as k0smo86 incorrectly stated that many small charging cycles is more more beneficial is completely false. The more times you charge a Lithium Ion cell, the less it will last. Best use is to only charge when the phone tells you to. That will provide the longest battery life as well as highest charge capacity.